P. Brett Hammond
Adjunct Professor
Area:
Economics & Finance
Email:
[[w|brett.hammond]]
CV:
{{https://mason.wm.edu/faculty/documents/hammond_2023_cv.pdf, PDF}}
Biography
Brett Hammond is an adjunct professor of finance at the Mason School, College of William & Mary. He is also currently Visiting Scholar for the Pension Research Council at The Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania).
Previously he held leadership positions at TIAA, MSCI, and Capital Group where he worked at the intersection of investment and retirement research on the creation of inflation-linked bonds, target date funds, the endowment model of investing with alternatives, annuities, and asset allocation models.
He has held teaching positions at University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, and the Wharton School. He has written and edited several books and published over 30 articles on pensions and investments
Areas of Interest/Expertise
- Investments; future of active management, equity risk premium, alts, ESG
- Retirement behavior and pension design
- Asset allocation; approaches, new asset classes
- Planned adaptation and institutional evolution
